2+ hour, 39+ min ago   (566+ words) The boss of Nothing, the British smartphone maker, said his industry is facing a "fundamental change" as unprecedented demand for memory chips driven by the artificial intelligence boom has seen costs soar. Carl Pei, the founder and chief executive of…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (617+ words) Bridget Jones's greatest fear as a singleton was dying so alone that no one would notice until her corpse was found half-eaten by dogs. There are as many as 200 million Chinese Bridget Joneses, at least to the extent that they…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (326+ words) Police in Latvia have questioned the crew of a ship suspected of damaging an underwater cable. They were arrested only days after a different cable was found to have been cut elsewhere in the Baltic Sea. Investigators boarded the ship…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1000+ words) I made a resolution to put my phone out of my bedroom in 2026. Three days in and I have broken it already. I am sitting in bed staring at my screen at 1.30am. I'm not scrolling Insta, though, I'm watching a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (683+ words) Madonna slept with one under a pillow. Barack Obama bucked White House protocol to keep hold of his when he became president. Now, a decade after it was made redundant by the iPhone, the BlackBerry is back. The Clicks Communicator,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (767+ words) China and Russia have launched a concerted pushback against Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network, accusing it of endangering spacecraft and helping criminals, drug smugglers and terror groups. The two countries, supported by allies including Cuba and Iran, have gone to…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (696+ words) This has been the year of the phone fightback (as in trying to wean us off our phones for limited periods of time). A few years ago we thought this was a problem exclusive to millennials and young people who…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (737+ words) Australia's world-first social media ban for children has been met with defiance as young people flock to more obscure platforms to stay connected with others online. TikTok's sister app Lemon8, owned by the same Chinese company ByteDance, soared to the top…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (694+ words) Excellent bedding for my pet hamster" was the verdict of US lawyer Preston Byrne on a stern letter from Ofcom, the British internet and media regulator. It followed the failure of his client, 4chan, to comply with two information requests around…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1255+ words) When Alex Leiserach and his wife moved from Lancing in West Sussex to a farmhouse in the Lincolnshire countryside, they knew it would be a big life change. What they did not expect was to travel back in time to…...